As Cilium turns 10, learn what the next decade of Cilium holds from CiliumCon and KubeCon in Amsterdam....

Cilium is an innovative open-source project that redefines networking and security for containerized applications. By leveraging the power of eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter), Cilium provides efficient networking and transparent security capabilities for modern cloud-native environments. Readers exploring Cilium can gain insights into advanced networking concepts, such as service mesh architectures, network policy enforcement, and distributed application security.

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Cilium marks its 10th anniversary with over 60% CNI market share, 1,010+ contributors, and 24,000 GitHub stars. Key highlights include the Cilium 1.19 release featuring ztunnel mTLS integration, expanded IPv6 support, stable Multi-Pool IPAM, smarter DNS policies, and Hubble flow log aggregation. New production case studies from OVHcloud and Zynga showcase real-world impact — Zynga eliminated conntrack scaling issues by replacing kube-proxy with eBPF-based load balancing. A new O'Reilly book 'Cilium: Up and Running' and a children's illustrated guide are now available. The project is positioned as the networking data plane for AI workloads, with Microsoft and Google using it for large-scale AI training clusters.

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